Walter Scott Quotes
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.
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The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
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Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people.
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I've got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that you'd have to decipher. I guess I try to never take myself too seriously.
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Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.
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Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.
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Everybody wants all of our businesses to have no restrictions in any country, but even in Canada, in order to distribute home entertainment, you need to follow the Canadian rules, and it's just about as hard to do business there as it is in China.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
